Wigton Windfarm led gains during Friday's trading

It was the second day of trading since its listing on the exchange at $0.50.

Wigton Windfarm led gains during Friday’s trading of the Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE).

The stock gained 23.4 per cent to close at $0.75 with a whopping 472 million units trading. It was the second day of trading since its listing on the exchange at $0.50.

The day’s top declining stock was iCreate down 10 per cent to close at $0.80. The JSE Combined Index advanced by 3,736.39 points ( 0.90 per cent) to close at 418,271.36.

The JSE Index advanced by 3,943.35 points ( 0.95 per cent) to close at 417,795.08. The Junior Market Index advanced by 10.21 points ( 0.33 per cent) to close at 3,138.66. The JSE USD Equities Index closed at 194.26. The JSE Financial Index advanced by 1.29 points ( 1.22 per cent) to close at 106.70.

The overall Market activity resulted from trading in 55 stocks of which 27 advanced, 21 declined and 7 traded firm.

Market volume amounted to 480,840,175 units valued at over $878,112,799.63. Wigton Windfarm Limited was the volume leader with 472,804,639 units (98.3 per cent) followed by Panjam Investment Limited with 4,199,150 units (0.87per cent) and Wisynco Group with 570,953 units (0.12per cent) .

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